City in Michigan urged to use bottled water due to lead risk

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is urging residents of Benton Harbor to usage bottled h2o for cooking and drinking successful effect to elevated levels of lead.

The authorities has been making escaped bottled h2o and filters disposable successful Benton Harbor for a fewer weeks. But the announcement Wednesday is the archetypal clip that authorities person recommended that residents trim their usage of pat water.

The authorities past period said it would spell door-to-door to administer filters.

In its latest statement, the authorities says the national authorities is conducting a survey to find however effectual the filters are successful reducing pb successful drinking water.

Benton Harbor is astir 200 miles distant from Flint, which besides dealt with a h2o crisis.

Residents began getting sick aft the metropolis started utilizing h2o from the Flint River successful 2014. By 2015, doctors had discovered precocious levels of pb successful the humor of children.

In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency declared Flint an exigency and provided the metropolis with $100 cardinal to hole its aging h2o infrastructure.